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By NICK FILLMORE

The Cruel Swim

LAST WEEKEND the Canadian National Exhibition Swim amasaaz-milechunkoflakeoiitairiobatleredlaofthe world’s greatest swimmers into submission.

The swim was called cruel and senseless obscenity. The two closest the finish to be pulled were Abel Latlf Ahou l'leilfa and Judith deNys.

The can ngton, Toronto Tele ram spot-tn miter. were as recorded in the tollowiing parma'ifhs.

article was called “A Sporting Event That Should Neva- e Been." ‘

"1T WOULD be all too easy to sit here and write that the CNE cross-lake swim should be_banned because it is loo laugh. finished on it only which officials described as

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and a sporting from the water

miss the Point. Just as the eye~for-an-eyo and a tooth-for-a tooth campaigners studiouuy "01¢ up mental health of a murderer.

I 5 this swim is a sporting obscenity. its harmful to those who watch as those who compete. It is in the North American tradition of the Greek. a kept alcoholic who hit the head off a living chicken as fairground entertainment to trustrated sadists.

No Dignity In It

THE EXECUTION of an aquatic marathon of this order re- quires a violation of the fundamental dignity of man and woman.

When they pulled Abdel Abou Half out of the water yester- day with all Toronto in his fading sight. the Egyptian scream ednlspitifulprotestnndfoughttocontlnuehis

battle. It was a more use than a. lunatic pleading against the strait jacket, yet this was once a proud and highly professional

etc.

The stomach turned also at the dramatic departure of Hol- land’s Judith de Nys from Lake Ontario. You had noted her as an attractive. though not a pretty girl . . . . .. o . satuesque. but with an antiseptic air that matched her clinically efficient manner. ‘

And t re she was flou like a demented winglee (luck in circles orfoflutgiby. Trying to fifty llifer wagilnrgy s elun edout t egraspo.resc ng eguar. - no as h g ‘ bs tching. mind oblivious to her cache

to

'in the'bull ring. cos the bull. Neltbc are

iiiigc‘gdyto the dark depths of mental aberration which tem-

porarily overcame Abel Ahou Hell. Judith do Nye and so many of their fellow travellers.

Not Sporting But Exciting

OMPANION on my launch saw me wince and said ,with meagufed cynicism—“You are in North America now. mboy. where they don’t give a damn for the competitor as long as they

emit cottrpetition."

"e 01$f 333m notmkgnow about that. What i do know for con tain is that the CNE cared. Their organization was superb. They wanted a finisher and they spared no expense and ef- fort to get one.

The competitors. ton. knew exactly what they were up against. The rlslcs involved. The .zes to won if _they could keep a spark of wannth in their bodies and a grain of reason in the minds. ,

Yet why should they attempt to conquer a lake that has alre conquered by a. 16-year-old girl? Publicity. columns of publicity for this excellent exhibitlon.

The prize money and conceivably even a sense of achieve-

ment. A Second Look This Morning

THIS MORNING. the failures must wonder if those who wisely pulled out at the last minute were not gifted with second sight. In the bitterness of defeat .Wlli come rows and recriminationis io hide the anguish of failure. and the worry (if uha uoh (fruitless efforts will cost them in the years in come.

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Ma tremes of h lied quite shamelessly. Let me .

"When think back on it now. it all seems no sense-

less. i wouldn't do it now—l wouldn't want my daughters to

do it.” ‘ Andiwouldnotdreamofsddingonewurdtoiidaepi. taph of a contest that should never bavdgoeen revived.

Off The Cuff

the mound for Charlotte

some mtglémgolng lately but

coach CHARLIE is counting on to 'comealive tonight for a good battle against the Kingsmen. The game is in aid of the Retarded Children’s und . . . . .. Deaths attributed to football in 1963 to 14 after 19 had died from the sport in 1901 and 1902. At least dour FOOTBALHI; DEATHS have nrecordedalrea thissealson . . . . .. es newsiiem —dyJEAN LACOURSIERE of Montreal won his fourth fiery ours h

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i consideri the construction of a 60.000 seat stadium to be ready by Baguio to be used by the baseball Phillies and football Eagles .... .. The Charlottetown Recrea ‘nal program.

the direction of JIM FOX, will ‘go big time for its final seven days next week with a tennis tournament, miniature golf champ- i‘mShlP. and skipping contest and pet and (1011 shows. Somdl‘ like a good way to end a successful monies (for my‘mo BIETR. 1 ’ 'i '

HeaVyweig-ht Champ N Is Starting” To Train

DI d mm snack. I. (AP)-— 01‘ maybe the ludw “"1 Cassius Clay started light wont- take it away from me We“ " 1

0 his return and about

in own selves lg” ‘ey can tell the world."

in the first. Clay-Liston fight

said he was only ktddih Koing to Egypt "It's too ot over . heavyweight champion said. Clay tipped the scales at 8!. about 15 pounds over a: fight-

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SECOND SECTION

Charlottetown, Wed. Aug. 26. 1964.

A member of the crew of a Flying Dutchman class yacht enjoys a front-row view of the opening race in the interna- tional Snipe clam sailing

or now SEAT

championships of the Western Hemisphere on Lake Ontario Monday. Snipes from Argen- tina, the Bahamas, Bermuda. Brazil, Japan, the United

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States and Canada are com- peting in the seven-race series. Reinaldo Conrad of Sao Paulo. Brazil, won the opening race after two false starts.

lPlumbers opple

Movers

SUMMERSIDE — Underdog. inman Plumbing refuse to fold. in the best of five Prince Coun- yy softball finals, even after al- owmg 20 Coastal Movers runs in the past two games.ln1na

lumblng beat the Movers here

runs to work on with the aid of errors, he didn't allow the usually hard hitting Movers a hit or run until the fourth in- ning.

Then Coastal Movers out the

gle and an error. Inman Plumb- ing salted the game away with

another three runs in the fifth inning. but again Coastal Mov- .ers made errors to help them. l'l‘hree of the miseues, along (with a double, a sacrifice. walk and a stolen base accounted for the runs

By BOB TRIMBEE EDMONTON (CP) - Each night, after a day’s work. Ken Pedlar throws homemade

heads for a nearby university field.

Alone he swings through a brisk set of exercises, wind sprints and practice leaps over the hurdle.

Hardly off the ground floor as

EdmontonNa’rive Is Working Hard

a hurdle over his shoulder and Ken

a track competitor, Pediar. 18, has his sights on a berth on Canada’s 1968 Olympic squad.

If he is to achieve t'ie goal,

jury that kept him out of sports

almost a year, a physical dis-

ability that restricts his late

ing, and boredom, the constant

danger of athletes who train one.

He must also try to squeeze

he“ 1 rent 25. Clay wanted “mug”: fifth round be- e“

Mariners Walloo: All-Stars f

The Bill Mulligan coached Main Brace MarinersA went twa games up on the National‘Park All Stars in their best of live se- ries for the Charlottetown city league softball championship. lasr night at the new diamond. They walloped the Park team to the tune of 12-3. ‘

Lloyd ‘Teet' Gregory was too ing the slab for the winners. ‘Teet' was tagged for four base knocks. gave one free pass and struck out three.

Frank Bradley started on the

mound for the Park squad but gave way to John Hughes after facing six batters. 'llhey av up seven hits, walked six and sent four down via the strike out route. The winners committed sin errors bur. oddly enough the Na- tional Park team only commit.- ted three miscues.

Wilf and P a d d y Shepherd were the big men in the batter's box for the Mulligan coached crew. The Shepherd boys each con fbr. circuit clouta. Paddy was the top better of the game with a one for three per- formance at the plate. .

Frank Bell was» behiiul the (plate for last night’s contest while Bud Lund. Ralph Plneau and‘ George Murphy were on the sea.

The All-Stars will face elimin- ation tonight when they go against the Mariners in the third game of the best of five final. Game time is seLfor 6.13

a crowd is expect-

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PROBABLE PITC'HERS

By THE CANADIAN Pm Probable pitchers for today’s major league baseball games. with won-lost records in brack

American League - Minnesota. Ardgo_(04) at Chi

.1 cago, Tnbot "(4-4) or Boa! (as) (N) -

ngeles. Chance (144i) ll Kansas City. O'Donogbu. (u) ( .

) , Cleveland. Stooge’ (54:) at Baltimore. .noberts (ii-5) (N) Nani-i

MIA

(ii-lo) at New York, Manure (a) Détroi “ M) a

I‘m " Rosin. Blithe: (Hillfi) I“ ‘ ‘

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San Fransisco. O‘Deli (u) or nudity (10-8) at Los Angela, Danette (ll-

) (I!) ' uh, Jamel (12-10} 1! m (H) (N)

and ed to be onhand for this battle.

practice sessions into the. time left after his job with an equip- ment rental firm. playing trom- bone twice a week with a Sal- vation Army hand (his father. Col. Willison Pedlar, is director f the Alberta division of the s vationAriny). and. during the university term. studies - the pre-law faculty. FEW INTERESTED

e drm practices has bothered and frus-‘ traled him; ' '

“It was quite a disappoint- ment to find so few people (crested in track at the Unlver-. sity of Alberta.

“ aybe it will improve next year now that the university has built its new track. But right now most of the empha- sis is on cross-country competi- tions."

His twice-weekly band data conflict.with workouts held by the Edmonton Olympic Club, leaving him no alternative but

"'1 kn to get into condition to become a threat to make line 1904 Olym- pic team. I had to lay off for almost a year when I tore the bone igaments in my. right leg, I didn't get back into training until late last winter when I be- gan to work out at night in the hockey arena.

Bankers Down Guardian 6-5

The Bankers defeated the Guardian Angels &5 in Co - mercial league softball fiction at the Queen Charlotte dia- mond, last night. The win gives the Bankers the right to meet the City police in the finals for the league championship.

The will be a best of seven affair and will get under- way at 0.30 pm. on the Queen Charlotte tonight. These boys take their ball serious and have

n serving up a pretty fair brand of softball this year. Soft- ball fans who wind their way to the Queen : Charlotte diamond will probably witness a top notch softball contest.

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Ball Series Goes Today

MORELL — The first game of the Island junior baseball finals is scheduled to be play- ed here this afternoon. Starting time is 4.30.

The Eastern Centennials here will host the Souris Legion. The series will be a best of three

must surmount a leg in- affair

Town League

Ball Action

SOURIS em dedeated the Centretowners 56 here last night in their final meeting in the regular schedule of the town baseball league.

Gus Clinton went the route for the winners. ' g hits; walling are. and striking out 18. ' '

* Wayne MacDonald pitched for ithe losers. He had one hit. walk- ' and struck out eight.

Freddie Robertson was. top

batter for the winners, one for

— The Downtown-

ose .

The final game of the schedule will be rllhursday night .be- tween the Centretownens the Uptowners.

As the league stands now. the Uptowners had 20 points. Cen- tretowners 10 and Downtowners eight.

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Junior Team

Wins Contest

Prince Street Junior Baseball team walloped the West Kent Junior team Monday by a score of 14-11. '

Pitcher of the winning team was Bobby MacMillan with re- lief help from Paul Turner and Teddy Lawlor.

Home runs for the winners were gotten by Bobby MacMil- lan, Paul Turner and Teddy Lawlor.

Next practice for the Prince Street team is at the KC dia- mond on Wednesday at 2 o'- clock.

The score was 6-2 as Coastal Movers made a vain effort in the sixth and seventh inning to end it all and take the CJRW trophy, emblematic of league supremacy. They managed two runs off Sleigh but that was all. Sleigh. for the evening, allow- ed five hits. all singles, three in the sixth inning while strik- ing out five and walking three. ‘Marty' Martin going the full seven innings, was the losing pitcher. Martin allowed only four hits (but his teammates hobbled the ball five times. Martin fanned three and issued five free passes.

Frank Wigglesworth. J lm Jenkins, Bob Sleigh and John MacLaren got the hits for In- man Plumbing. Coastal Movers hits. were made by: Jerry Bernard, Martin, Doug Tucker, Gord Lyons and George Kinch. Line score R H E Coastal Movers 000 202 0 4 5 o lnmau Plumbing 300 030 x 6 4 2

Poniicics Even Final Series

MMERSIDE — A.E. Mac- Ilennan Pontiac: evened up the best of five baseball finals here last night with a come from hind 6-4 win over Curran and Briggs. Curran and Briggs won the opener 3-2.

Curran and Briggs 'quicldy three runs in the top of the first inning off hurlcr G e rry

Abou Heif To Try Again

TORONTO (CM—Abdel Latif (Abou Belt of Egypt, who went the farthest of 10 entrants in this year's {id-mile Canadian Na-' tional Exhibition across - Lake Ontario: swim. said Tuesday he will be back for another at tempt. . who won first prise money of It.“ although. he‘dfailed to finish the swim. {Won remember i said this was my last year of well.

Smith. But the Pontiacs came from behind in the second frame with five scores off Jack Pate and scored a single run 11! the third for a 6-3 lead. Shutout for four innings, Curran Briggs scared their fourth and final run in the sixth inning. Smith in gaining the mound for the Pontiacs got five batters of trike: while walking four. Smith was rapped for eight safeties. Richard Perry had two while teanunatu Paul MacWiliiams and Gene m

Next game b May. lep- tember 1.

LineScore R 11 h Ctnran andBriggs $00010484 Pontiace “1000x060

Santiago owned by Stanley yhew. Klnkora and Edge wood liedrick owned by the Mystery Stables, Hunter River were double dash winners on last night's nine dash program at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

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Santiago with Graham Chap- pell up on the bike made the trip in 2.09:1 in the second event and was clocked in 2.10:1 in the sixth dash.

Edgewood Hedrick with Ralph MacFadyen holding the ribbons went in 2.00:1 in the fourth and circled the oval in 2.10 in the eighth. The fourth and eighth dashes were the main attraction on the nine dash program.

The weather was warm and the track was in excellent shape for last night’s races. The largest single pay on the card w s a win ticket on Popular Eden in the fifth race.

Claude O'Brien reined the Poplar Byrd dam Lynn Adios stallion to the wire in 2.12:4. A win ticket on the O’Brien teamed entry paid $35.00 for a $2.00 ticket. Combination pays were small.

Golf Tourney I:

At Belveclere

The Belvedere golf club will bethe scene of the annual Gan- adian Junior golf champion- ships starting next Tuesday, September 151. and continuing through till the fourth.

Opening day will serve as qualifying round for all entries. Eight four man teams repre- senting nine provinces will be taking part in the action. Un- der Royal Canadian golf asso- ciation rules. New Brunswick

Ind Prince Edward Island form lKansas City 000001200— 3 so Miss Flamingo (A. Carr)

one team.

An application from New- foundland is now pending. The top 32 entries on opening day will take part in a three day match play round for the Cana- dian junior golf title.

his is the first time the nan

for E1. The first junior

championship was held _in 1959 _T

at Montreal's Kanawaki club. The meet is part of Pepsi

Cola's Canadian junior sportslmeveland

development program under

which the soft drink firm gives 1 financial support to a series of iMcMahon national sports championship in 1pappas, Haddix (5-4) (8), the junior category, with the objective of helping young Cau~ Cleve. q.

ada compete.

tional meet has been scheduled P. .

5°“ :Callison (22).

Fans at the local raceway witnessed an upset in the fifth dash. Callie Hal with Joe Ar- senault doing the driving broke as she was coming down the stretch. Joe thrown with quite a bump but escaped uninjured and was back in the ninth event to rein the little more to place position in a photo finish.

acing action resumes at the Charlottetown Driving Park on Thursday night when the Colt Stakes will be presented. The best young horses on the Is- land will be taking part in Thursday‘s card and will give loeal race fans a chance to view the best of the young horse flesh.

DASH 1 Audrey's Pride (W. Downe) 1 Future Chief (E. Bernard) 2 Diplomaie Royal (E. Clowl

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lTwo Double Dash Winners unfilln Ch'iown Racing Action

Progress Brand (0. Willis) 4 Paula Clegg (S. Stead) 5 First Dreams (A. MacDonald) s Free Chance Will Mahlon (8. Andrew) lst 2.90. 2.70, 2.30; 3.N. Time: 213:3.

DASHES 2 AND 0 Santiago (G. Chappell) Mr. McElewyn Key

(C. Woolridge) lCaptain Chief (S. Stead) Miss JoJo (C. Murphy) Goes Hanover (J. Fox) Janet M (W. Downs ) The Sheik (H. Poulton)

Time 2.09:1 and 2.10:1. 2nd 10.50, 6.90. 2.60; 5.3), 2.40; 2,80 3.40. 2.50. 2.40; 2.10. 2.10; 3.30.

} DASHES 3 AND 7 (Nimble Knight (S. Stead) 12 1 Susan Pointer (ii. Willis) 2 -

‘Windy June (E. Bernard) 35 ‘(Zyclone Kelly (L. Kelly) Countess Alice (W. Downe) 5 1 Mrytle E (C. Willis) 60 Evelyn’s Ardent (E. Clow) 76 Times 2.13 and 2.12:3 :ii-d 3.40. 3.40, 2.50; 5.50, 3.00; .3130 6.20, 3.00. 2.20: 2.40. 2.10; 2.10. - ' DASHES 4 AND 8 Edgewood Hedrick

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2.10. ‘ 4111 5.60, 2.50. 2.10: 2.30. 2.1.0; 2.10 2.60., 2.40; 9.20. ( DASHES 5 AND 9 Popular Eden (C. O'Brien) 1 4 Doctor Alex (D. MacNell) 21 (Chet Lynn Roya